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This site is provided for information purposes only. Whilst Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that the information and related graphics (hereafter know as “material”) contained in this site are correct at the time of publication no warranty is made, either express or implied, as to their accuracy or fitness for purpose.

Responsibility cannot be accepted by, or on behalf of,
WCVA and/or its related suppliers for errors, omissions,
misleading statements or the consequences thereof.

This site contains general information about our services, the
law and other matters relevant to voluntary organisations.
The material is not intended to be a complete statement of the law,
fact or procedure and should not be relied upon by you, or be
conveyed to a third party, as such. Nothing in this site
constitutes legal or other professional advice. You should
always seek detailed advice from a lawyer or other suitable
professional/expert before making a decision to act or refrain from
acting based on a specific set of facts.

WCVA and/or our related suppliers disclaim all liability, both
to the direct user and all third parties, for special, indirect or
consequential damage or any damage whatsoever arising in contract,
tort or otherwise (including, without limitation, damages for loss
of use, data, business or profits) resulting from the use or
inability to use this site.

Reference to any organisation, company or individual in this
site, or any other site to which it is linked, does not imply
WCVA's approval or warranty as to their standing or capability
unless otherwise expressly stated.

WCVA makes every effort to check and test material at all stages
of production. We cannot accept responsibility for any loss,
disruption or damage to your data or computer caused by the
transmission of a virus, or by any other cause, which may occur
whilst accessing this site. You should run an anti virus
programme on all downloaded material.

Copyright
Unless otherwise stated, copyright or similar rights in all
material in this site is owned by WCVA.

You may print in hard copy, download to a local hard disk or
otherwise use any material found in this site provided it is for
your personal use or only accessible by others within your
organisation. In all cases, WCVA must be acknowledged as the source
of the material on the copy; all copyright and proprietary notices
must be kept intact, and our address and contact details
reproduced.

The supply of any copy to a third party is permitted provided it
is for their own personal use; is not supplied as part of another
work or publication, and is not supplied directly in return for
commercial gain. The supply of any copy to a third party is
conditional upon them being made aware of the fact that these terms
apply equally to them.

The permission to reproduce WCVA copyright material does not
extend to any material on this site which is identified as being
the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce
such material must be obtained directly from the relevant copyright
holder.

The copying of any article is only permitted if it is copied in
full with no amendment or editing. Translation is permitted on the
basis that you take full responsibility for the accuracy of the
translation.

The copyright permissions given in these terms do not include
the design or layout of the WCVA website. Elements of our
website are protected by law and may not be copied or imitated in
whole or in part. No WCVA website logo, graphic or
image may be copied or retransmitted without our written
permission.

We would be pleased to consider requests for permission to
disseminate or use WCVA material outside the scope of the copyright
terms set out above provided that our written approval is obtained
in advance.

Material submitted by users, members and third parties
Certain parts of the site contain material submitted by users,
members and third parties who remain responsible at all times for
the submitted materials content and any opinions expressed
therein. The inclusion of submitted material in this site
does not constitute or imply any warranty, endorsement or agreement
of its content by WCVA unless otherwise expressly stated.

WCVA does not accept liability for any errors omissions or
inaccuracies in submitted material.

WCVA reserves the right to omit, suspend or edit any submitted
material.

Links
Our website contains links to other websites over which WCVA has no
control. Consequently, WCVA does not accept responsibility or
liability for the operation; content; changes to, or links
contained in such websites.

We provide these links as a convenience and the inclusion of any
link does not imply WCVA's endorsement of the related website
unless otherwise expressly stated.

WCVA grants general permission to link to this site providing
written notification is given to us prior to the creation of the
link.

Service access
WCVA tries to ensure that this site is normally available 24 hours
a day but we cannot accept liability for any claims arising out of
delay, interruption or inability to access the site, whatever the
cause.

WCVA membership entitles members to access restricted elements
of the site that are otherwise unavailable to non-members.
WCVA tries to ensure that the member elements of the site are
normally available 24 hours a day but we do not guarantee member
access or accept liability for any claims arising out of delay,
interruption or inability to access the site, whatever the
cause.

Periodically it may be necessary to suspend our website service
in order to instigate improvements; carry out essential
maintenance, or for some other reason. Every reasonable
effort will be made to minimise interruption to the service but
WCVA cannot accept liability for any claims arising out of such
delay, interruption or inability to access the site.

General
By accessing any part of this site you will be deemed to have
accepted these terms in full.

The WCVA website, including these terms, is governed by the laws
of England andWales. The courts of England and Wales have
exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising under these
terms.

All rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved by
WCVA.

Written permissions and notifications should be requested from
or sent to: email webmaster@wcva.org.uk or
mail Webmaster, WCVA, Baltic House,Mount Stuart Square,CardiffCF10
5FH.

Please note that our terms and conditions may be amended
periodically so please ensure that you check them each time you use
this site.

Information about our organisation and websites
modern information and communication technologies play a
fundamental role in the activities of an organisation such as Wales
Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA). We are based inWales,UK.

Our principal activity is to: Promote all or any purposes for
the benefit of the community in Wales which now or hereafter may be
deemed by law to be charitable and in particular the advancement of
education, the furtherance of health and the relief of poverty,
distress and sickness.

We do not collect or use personal data for any purpose other
than that indicated above. If we wish to use your personal
data for a new purpose, we offer you the means to consent to this
new purpose by indicating in a box at the point on the site where
personal data is collected

Disclosure and visitor choice
We do not disclose your personal data to other organisations.
Where we wish to disclose your personal data, for purposes which
are different from those indicated in the table above, we will
offer you the opportunity to consent to disclosure.

Confidentiality/Security
We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to
send us the following types of personal data:

primary personal data (such as name and contact details)

identifiers (such as credit card details, website
password)

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical
measures to protect the personal data that we have under our
control from:

unauthorised access

improper use or disclosure

unauthorised modification

unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees and data processors, who have access to and
are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to
respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State
institutions and authorities except if required by law or other
regulation.

Access to the personal data we may hold about you.

You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you
and request a copy of that data, by:

We will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data we
keep about you within 40 days - although we will require
proof of your identity before doing so. We will provide the
information without any charge.

Under the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 you can
challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate,
you may have the data:

erased

rectified or amended

completed

We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a
copy of their personal data for any of the relevant exceptions set
out in the Data Protection Act 1998 - we will give reasons for our
refusal. You can, however, challenge our decision to refuse to
provide you with a copy of your personal data.

Privacy Compliance
WCVA is registered as a Data Controller under the Data Protection
Act 1998. In order to demonstrate that our privacy policy
accords with the above legislation, we are subject to independent
data protection supervision by:

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